open out

English

Verb

open out (third-person singular simple present opens out, present participle opening out, simple past and past participle opened out)

1. To expand, to widen, to unwrap or unfold, to spread out from a compact state.
   • 1954 July, C. R. L. Coles, “Memories of the Great Central”, in Railway Magazine, page 464:

     Once though the station the deep-throated exhaust of G.C.R. engines, and particularly the "Directors", could be heard in ascending crescendo as the drivers opened out to take the gradient.

Translations

to expand or widen

• Maori: tāwaewae, whakakaupeka, kaupeka, tūhāngai

Anagrams

• nope out